my views on the local news in Minnesota

October 20, 2009

How's this for Scary?

While some ponder what to wear for Halloween, here's something really scary:

Update:
What about Lord Monckton's assertion that "In the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy and your prosperity away forever, and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back again."

It's difficult, if not impossible, to believe that the Founders went to the trouble to hammer out the federal constitution only to allow its guarantees of liberty to be undone with the stroke of a pen on a treaty with a foreign country.

But to say that treaties are subject to constitutional protections does not, of course, guarantee that our leaders will not agree to treaties with provisions that abrogate our constitutional rights, nor that our government will not enforce and facilitate the enforcement of such provisions.

Regardless of the precise formulation of any future US Supreme Court opinion on the issue of whether treaties must conform to the Constitution, the threat to our sovereignty is nonetheless real. As John at Powerline has recognized,

The creeping tendency to cede control over our domestic policies, including taxation, to international organizations and international treaty commitments represents an enormous threat to both our freedom and to our democracy.